German spinsters push for leap year week in year proposal
Berlin cabal reports that single German women aged 27 face only a one in five chance of marriage, spinsters groups back a yearly leap year week dedicated to St Catharine patroness of single women, while postwar bride trends and a war created male shortage influence marriage patterns. A beardless Wagner production shocks Frankfurt, and US libraries praised by German librarian Dr Wilhelm Riedner amid rebuilt cultural ties with the United States.
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Berlin
Marriage Bureau
St. Catharine
Germany
Frankfort
Richard Wagner
Hamlet
Shakespeare
Sigmund
Hunding
Sieglinde
Valkyrie
United States
Wilhelm Riedner
State Library of
Munich
America
Columbia University
Europe
Riedner
New York
Chicago
Persident von Hindenburg
Cascarets Laxative Promises Quick Fresh Feeling
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a pleasant candy like laxative that mildly stimulates the liver and bowels. It claims head clears, stomach sweet, tongue pink, and skin rosy with no griping. It notes Cascarets is the world’s largest selling laxative and lists directions for all ages on each box.
Proposals on Anthracite Dispute Referred to Hughes Rejected
New York Jan 11 Proposals to refer the anthracite dispute to Charles E Hughes were rejected by the anthracite wage conference In a Sunday session the conferees say they are back to the December 29 peace negotiations position All plans since then have been rejected by one side or the other Renewed predictions of a final break appeared throughout the talks
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New York
Charles E. Hughes
Thief of Bagdad At the Broadhurst Today
Douglas Fairbanks star in The Thief of Bagdad at the New Broadhurst today through Wednesday with the Winged Horse a Magic Carpet and spectacular wonders praised by critics. Shows are at 3 5 7 and 9 with strong advance notices and fan interest.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Bagdad
New Broadhurst
Robert L. Sherwood
Everest
Fire Gutts Richmond Wholesale Coffee House Blaze
Fire began at 4 50 a m in C W Antrim company wholesale coffee and tea at 1413 17 East Cary street gutting that building and the adjoining Gunn Ellis wholesale grocers. Fire alarms and apparatus filled the block. control came near 8 o clock. Loss expected well above a hundred thousand dollars.
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Richmond
C. W. Antrim Company
East Cary Street
Gunn-Ellis Company
Kingan Company
F. H. Boehling Company
Oyster Shell Piles Signal Prosperity In Long Island Hamlets
In eastern Long Island villages such as Greenport Huntington Oyster Bay and Blue Point man made mounds of oyster shells rise as symbols of local prosperity. With plentiful oysters and health safeguards demand grows as ships bring in shells and five gallon tins ship westward.
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New York
Long Island
Greenport
Huntington
Oyster Bay
Blue Point
Peconic Bay
Fire Place Point
Pacific Coast
Congress Bill Seeks War Cotton Reserve Purchase
Representative Hare proposes a bill authorizing the secretary of war to buy every year for ten years at least 100000 bales of cotton, not exceeding 3000000 bales held at any time, to be kept as a munition of war reserve. The measure was introduced in Washington.
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Washington
Secretary of War
Representative Hare
Democrat
South Carolina
Pauline Boone Dies After Auto Accident Night Injury
Pauline Boone died at 1 25 A M in Wilmington after being struck by a car on the Federal Point road last night. The injury occurred during the incident and led to her death early this morning.
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Wilmington
Pauline Boone
Federal Point Road
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